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JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 1071-1100Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-009-0296-x
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Fertility timing; Female wages; Family gap
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This paper estimates the effects of motherhood timing on female career path, using biological fertility shocks to instrument for age at first birth. Motherhood delay leads to a substantial increase in earnings of 9% per year of delay, an increase in wages of 3%, and an increase in work hours of 6%. Supporting a human capital story, the advantage is largest for college-educated women and those in professional and managerial occupations. Panel estimation reveals both fixed wage penalties and lower returns to experience for mothers, suggesting that a mommy track is the source of the timing effect.
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